Depressing Days

7:00

It's 7:00 as I start this, the sun bright in the sky.  It's not so bright here.  To start with, our new coffee maker would not work for some reason.  It worked perfectly for me yesterday.  Today it won't, at least for now. So I drove to Hogans and picked up a couple of cups of their coffee to start the morning.  I am sitting on our front porch to avoid the noise of the air cleaner and the fact that the vapor barrier has already collapsed, opening up the kitchen to the rest of the house.

Yesterday, Wednesday, seemed to start out fine, with a typical morning although we knew the guys were coming to tear out some of our kitchen flooring.  So I kayaked, had breakfast, and thought about going for a bike ride. That soon ended, however, when the worker found a rotten spot in the floor and discovered black mold which changed the whole scenario and we don't know where it's going to take us.  Another specialist came along and told us they were going to have to enclose our kitchen in a plastic vapor barrier for three to five days and run a special machine to take the mold out of the air.  O, yea. I forgot to mention that we had to move the refrigerator out of the kitchen, so we decided to defrost it and put everything either in the freeze or in ice chests.

Meanwhile, the floor guy left to get all the plastic and the machinery and did not come back until 2:00. He set up the barrier, turned on another noisy machine,  then worked some on ripping the floor and found a couple of new soft spots in the subfloor. We sat around most of the day depressed although Evie did get outside long enough to work in the garden.  I either stayed in our bedroom reading or napping or in the TV room. Hopefully today they will be able to remedy the problem without doing much damage to our kitchen and find out if all of this mitigation will be covered by insurance.

.Either way, we will not be able to get new flooring until October  We just hope we will be able to use the kitchen in a couple of days.  The workers left at 3:30 because they had a meeting at 4:00 which seemed strange. After they left, we discovered their humidifier was leaking water on our carpet, soaking a small area so we had to drag it and its container out on the front porch. And that was our depressing day.

We did not know what to do with ourselves, so we had a long cocktail hour on the porch, singing our woes, hoping for the best.  It was a windy night, the first of many fall-like nights to come and there were few boats out because of the rough lake except for a Hobie Cat which was racing back and forth, loving the heavy winds.  Because we couldn't do any cooking and there are no fast-food restaurants nearby, I  volunteered to pick up burgers and fries at the Zeezurh House in Bemus Point.  We ended the night watching the last couple of episodes of The Chair, as silly and predictable as ever with a bizarrely, unexplained, happy ending. In English Departments, alls well that ends well.